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Materials
The Internet of Things to Transform Healthcare Packaging
IoT-enabled packaging can track shipments and missed medications, improving supply chain workflow and the quality of life.
April 11, 2016
Vimal Kumar.
Materials
Lives Over Landfills
Destined for the trash heap, unused, unopened and quality medical supplies could prevent millions of deaths.
March 28, 2016
This UPS blog author Charles Redding, CEO of MedShare, says the nonprofit firm has effectively diverted 2.3 million cubic feet in medical supplies from landfills.
Pharmaceuticals
Three Life Science Cold Chain Trends to Watch in 2016
Driving down costs, growth in biologics/biosimilars and passive bulk shippers identified by cold chain veteran as key issues.
February 2, 2016
Shown here is a Credo Xtreme in a warehouse environment.
Adherence/Delivery
Pharmaceutical Trends Enhance Label Significance
The value of color labels as a communications tool provides benefits in patient adherence, serialization, regulatory and marketing.
January 29, 2016
Trends in pharmaceuticals further increase the significance of labels.
Supply Chain
Testing LSL article
This is a test
September 24, 2015
Pharmaceuticals
Regulations, ‘silos’ slow pharmaceutical serialization progress
In this opinion piece, Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan suggests focusing on change management, looking outside pharma, and questions the promise of global harmonization.
September 18, 2015
Regulations, 'silos' slow pharmaceutical serialization progress.
Materials
Three primary cold chain packaging pain points and priorities
Along with preventing temperature excursions, three priority issues are regulatory compliance, reducing costs, and emerging markets.
August 25, 2015
This photo shows Pelican BioThermal's Credo production line.
Materials
Ensuring product integrity and visibility across the supply chain
PDA’s Berlin conference sheds light on manufacturing and logistics, serialization, and regulatory pressure for temperature control of warehouses and shipments.
January 23, 2015
PDA’s Berlin conference sheds light on manufacturing and logistics, serialization, and regulatory pressure for temperature control of warehouses and shipments.
Pharmaceuticals
Test your cold chain IQ
True or false questions about the handling of biologics and drugs in the supply chain.
January 7, 2015
Kevin O'Donnell is Vice President, Cold Chain Standards, Practices & Compliance at BioLife Solutions, Inc., and is a Contributing Editor for Healthcare Packaging. He is internationally recognized as an industry thought leader, author and advocate on matters related to pharmaceutical packaging and distribution practices.
Pharmaceuticals
A common-sense perspective on UDI and DSCSA
In this Q&A, Chip Meyers, VP, Corporate Public Affairs, UPS, offers perspective on serialization and track and trace for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
November 17, 2014
In this Q&A, Chip Meyers, VP, Corporate Public Affairs, UPS, offers perspective on serialization and track and trace for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Supply Chain
Reevaluating drug product stability can save millions on packaging
Kevin O’Donnell, Senior Partner, Exelsius, is a noted authority in supply chain integrity. In this Q&A he lends his “big-picture” insights regarding distribution practices for time and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical/biological products.
September 29, 2014
Kevin O’Donnell, Senior Partner, Exelsius, is a noted authority in supply chain integrity.
Materials
FDA’s growing global focus faces language barriers
As FDA becomes more globally focused, drug complaints and adverse event reporting pose “cultural” challenges, as do inspections.
September 11, 2014
As FDA becomes more globally focused, drug complaints and adverse effect reporting pose “cultural” challenges, as do inspections.
Materials
USP to roll out information chapters on Good Distribution Practices
Five new general chapter standards related to GDP to become official next year, when three new chapters will be proposed.
September 8, 2014
Desmond Hunt, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Liaison, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
Labeling/Printing
The case for and against RFID in pharma
Reaching necessary read accuracies remains a challenge in pharmaceuticals, but RFID could still prove useful.
August 29, 2014
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is founder of RxTrace.
Pharmaceuticals
'Cold Chain Chronicles' delivers thought-provoking insights
New book authored by Kevin O’Donnell provides practitioner’s outside-the-box perspectives on the importance of temperature-sensitive drug stewardship.
August 18, 2014
'Cold Chain Chronicles' delivers thought-provoking insights
Materials
RxTrace: Is your drug exempt from the Federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act?
Understanding your product’s characteristics and reading certain provisions of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act are keys.
April 30, 2014
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is an independent consultant and founder of RxTrace.
Materials
Public trust part of the life sciences supply chain mix
Complexities in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biologics supply chain surpass any other industry, except nuclear power. Million-dollar pallets, toxic oncology meds, longer shipping channels—even the public trust, are part of the mix.
April 2, 2014
Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan near the Vietnam memorial in Washington, DC.
Materials
A Washington perspective on healthcare packaging
Visits to PDA, USP, RAPS, and CPSC reveal what works "Inside the Beltway."
March 27, 2014
President Richard M. Johnson of The Parenteral Drug Assn.
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